Rolling Stone Highlights DC Comics’ ABSOLUTE Line

Christopher Cruz / Rolling Stone: In two years, DC’s Absolute Universe has dominated the sales charts — on top of racking up multiple nominations and wins at the industry’s Eisner and Hugo Awards — with a cultural footprint that seems outsized for this era. We expect superhero movies to rake in billions at the box office, but people flooding brick-and-mortar stores for paperbound products almost feels unreal. “Week after week, people are lined up outside the door waiting for us to turn that key at 10 a.m.,” says Jermaine Exum, owner of Acme Comics in Greensboro, North Carolina. “I’ve been behind the counter here for 30 years. I’ve seen a lot of Number One relaunches, but I’ve never seen anything quite like what is happening with the Absolute material.” What’s driving the fervor for Absolute comics is arguably twofold: a freedom from the constraints of decades worth of continuity, and something deeply cultural — a socially conscious bent to most of the titles in this new DC world.…

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